Hacker Conversations: Rob Juncker, a Knock at the Door and a Moral Compass
Rob Juncker is chief product and technology officer at Mimecast. Is he a hacker? “Unequivocally yes,” he says. “And I think every security leader should be able to answer ‘yes’ to that question, for so many reasons.”
He started early, when his parents brought home an Apple IIc. He was 10. They wanted to use it for word processing; but within two days of it arriving he had the lid off, trying to figure out how it worked. He had a driving curiosity to understand it. This curiosity, which he describes more as a thirst for knowledge, started before the arrival of the Apple – but with hands-on access, it rapidly focused on technology.
Back then, especially for a 10-year-old, there were few books and little training available. But it was obvious that what made the Apple do things was software. So, he taught himself Basic programming by looking at...
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